outfoot
Americanverb (used with object)
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to surpass (another person) in running, walking, etc.; outstrip.
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to outsail; excel (another boat) in speed.
verb
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(of a boat) to go faster than (another boat)
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to surpass in running, dancing, etc
Etymology
Origin of outfoot
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Textile-company earnings were down 12%; food companies, unable to outfoot rising costs, were down 5%.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rails, whose spectacular traffic rise has helped them outfoot rising costs, were leveling-off.
From Time Magazine Archive
Withington is 68, merely mellow for the antiques dodge, a country dance in which the old outfoot the young because they have had time to learn a trade whose secret is endless learning.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oil industry's increase in production since Korea has been big enough to outfoot taxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A person's wits will outfoot his judgment sometimes.
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips
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